By Evaristo Lara
Jun 22, 2024, 17:24 PM EDT
Van Jones, who at the time served as an advisor to former president Barack Obama, anticipates that, if Joe Biden makes a major mistake in the presidential debate, his future In the rest of the campaign seeking re-election, It will be finished.
During an intervention on the television network cnnthe African-American from Tennessee pointed out that a large part of Biden’s chances of beating Donald Trump in the November elections will depend on the image he projects during the 90 minutes when he is once again face to face with his staunch political adversary.
“This is all the elections, as far as I’m concerned. The whole world will be watching.
If you are a carbon-based life form, you will be watching. If you have a functioning brain stem, you will be watching.
Because If Biden comes out and makes a mistake, it’s game over. If he leaves and a week later he is lower in the polls, there will be panic in the party“, he expressed.
Van Jones warned that the 81-year-old Democrat will face the fury of an adversary focused on destroying him in front of the citizens, but if he manages to send a message where he exhibits the necessary vigor to contain him by being more intelligent, then he will project himself towards a victory in the ballots. , because it will dispel all doubts.
“If he gets in there and can take on Donald Trump (a runaway train, a locomotive, a raging bull), then this guy deserves another chance to be presidentbecause that is difficult,” he stressed.
Although in recent weeks some videos have been released where Biden’s possible cognitive deterioration is allegedly observed, the Tennessee advisor does not rule out that it is all a strategy based on selling the idea of a character nothing like the one who will be planted. in front of television cameras next week.
“I think it’s an advantage for Biden because they keep acting like he’s going to go out and fall asleep or fall, so just the fact that he’s not going to do that. “He is sharp in politics,” he expressed.
It should be noted that Joe Biden won a drawing held to host Thursday’s debate and chose to secure a podium position on the right side of the stage, but in doing so he gave Donald Trump the option of making the final statement of the confrontation, something that It could also sentence the future of the Democrat.
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